My fnm group every several months does a tournament as a thank you to people who come to to fnm frequently and the next cone coming up is theros block without the use of mythics. It seems this makes r/g and naya unplayable though I might be wrong. That would make mono black the way to go though I would not know what to replace erebos or hythonia with. Anyone have any insight?
G/R is the "play all the good mythics" deck. It doesn't exist without them. All midrange/late game white and/or red decks are unplayable becuase the lose the reason to play those decks (elspeth and stormbreath).
Mono B doesn't suffer much. Hythonia is extremely replaceable, abhorrent overlord is another possiblity but keepsake gorgon could be too. Erebos is much harder to replace, he provides a pretty unique powerful effect. Instead of him, just max out on copies of other cards which are already in the deck I guess - baleful, agent, nighthowler, read the bones, disciple etc.
UG is built around prognostic sphinx, it's still quite playable. Replace master/polykranos with horizon chimera and maybe go up to 4x masters, along with 4x boon satyr and some omenspeaker or voyaging satyr to round things out as necessary. No GR in the meta probably means less burn so it'd still be quite a good deck imo.
The aggro decks are probably all fairly playable, UW is the best imo but UR could work too.
The worst cards in that list are daxos and favored hoplite. The former is too expensive and very unreliable (still dies to all of the deathtouchers), althoguh some copies are warranted. Hoplite feels more like a sideboard card in 90% of games, and is too expensive to meaningfully pressure opponents. I'd be inclined to fit some cavalry pegasi in there, maybe 2-3 copies.
Apart from that, I agree it's a strong deck and I pretty much raved about it in my article on the archetype, it's easily the best aggro deck in the format imo.
I changed it a bit as phalanx although good sometimes is pretty mediocre most of time and it doesn't push too much damage nor carry ordeal in a decent way.
imo phalanx is unplayable in the deck if only due to double white. The mana is already tough enough without adding a double white two-drop, especially considering that you often want to play your creatures a mana off curve to hold up god's willing which would require triple white.
imo phalanx is unplayable in the deck if only due to double white. The mana is already tough enough without adding a double white two-drop, especially considering that you often want to play your creatures a mana off curve to hold up god's willing which would require triple white.
The thing that made me cut it is that it usually doesn't get out of the burn range easily and the payout is very low, the creature count is pretty low so when you are suiting it up, if you have another creature in play you are very luck.
Mono B doesn't suffer much. Hythonia is extremely replaceable, abhorrent overlord is another possiblity but keepsake gorgon could be too. Erebos is much harder to replace, he provides a pretty unique powerful effect. Instead of him, just max out on copies of other cards which are already in the deck I guess - baleful, agent, nighthowler, read the bones, disciple etc.
UG is built around prognostic sphinx, it's still quite playable. Replace master/polykranos with horizon chimera and maybe go up to 4x masters, along with 4x boon satyr and some omenspeaker or voyaging satyr to round things out as necessary. No GR in the meta probably means less burn so it'd still be quite a good deck imo.
The aggro decks are probably all fairly playable, UW is the best imo but UR could work too.
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Apart from that, I agree it's a strong deck and I pretty much raved about it in my article on the archetype, it's easily the best aggro deck in the format imo.
I played UW in the daily with success so I really thin it's the way to go.
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I changed it a bit as phalanx although good sometimes is pretty mediocre most of time and it doesn't push too much damage nor carry ordeal in a decent way.
So I just made this changes:
-3 Phalanx Leader
+2 Cavalry Pegasu
+1 Aqueous Form
-1 Spear of Heliod
-1 Artisan of Forms
+1 Wavecrash Triton
+1 Curse of the Swine
The thing that made me cut it is that it usually doesn't get out of the burn range easily and the payout is very low, the creature count is pretty low so when you are suiting it up, if you have another creature in play you are very luck.
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